Tertullian Against Marcion Book IV When He recommends perseverance and earnestness in prayer, He sets before us the parable of the judge who was compelled to listen to the widow, owing to the earnestness and importunity of her requests.[1434] Tertullian On Fasting , at which they entered the temple: why should we not understand that, with absolutely perfect indifference, we must pray[79] Origen Commentary on Matthew Book XIII and to the like effect in Luke, "It is 'inadmissible' but that occasions of stumbling should come,"[146]